Advice on plastics
Why should we reduce the amount of plastic we use?
Did you know that in Britain, we use 13 billion plastic bottles every year? Around half of them are recycled, but that leaves 7.7 billion that go unrecycled.
Thankfully, the culture around plastic usage is changing.
At the moment, plastic bottles make up around a third of all plastic pollution in the sea - and they take around 450 years to disintegrate.
What’s more, around 700,000 plastic bottles are littered in the UK every day. It’s a problem, but one we can tackle with some simple acts.
We’ve listed out 15 ways you can help to reduce our collective plastic usage.
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In this section
- Advice on plastics
- Saving water in the home and garden
- Things to keep out of the water system